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authorAndrew Childs <lorne@cons.org.nz>2021-02-26 13:19:11 +0900
committerAndrew Childs <lorne@cons.org.nz>2021-05-17 00:28:04 +0900
commit1f0ae937d6862107e947300dbb64189bacd9e204 (patch)
tree9b055b32db35a853057bcf20cc06d1de03f2f7d7 /pkgs/development/tools/misc/libtool
parent0ec1e50d8b2681717c90aab701c65e717f0b4bdf (diff)
libtool2: add bootstrapping warning
Diffstat (limited to 'pkgs/development/tools/misc/libtool')
-rw-r--r--pkgs/development/tools/misc/libtool/libtool2.nix5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/libtool/libtool2.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/libtool/libtool2.nix
index 89018027e6ec0..44e4c8665c839 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/libtool/libtool2.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/libtool/libtool2.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 { lib, stdenv, fetchurl, fetchpatch, autoconf, automake, m4, perl, help2man
 }:
 
+# Note: this package is used for bootstrapping fetchurl, and thus
+# cannot use fetchpatch! All mutable patches (generated by GitHub or
+# cgit) that are needed here should be included directly in Nixpkgs as
+# files.
+
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "libtool";
   version = "2.4.6";